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  • 17-04-2009 12:08pm
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    conolan
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 586 ✭✭✭


    I've created a website for a local builder. www.connhennessy.ie. Finished it 2 months ago. Searching on google with the most obvious keywords (conn hennessy!) turns up nothing. Yahoo.ie find it under builder waterford.

    Yet I put up registered www.dunmorewebcams.com 5 weeks ago and it gets found.
    Anyone had similar experiences?


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    markhboyd
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13 ✭markhboyd


    Hi Conolan,

    I think I know what the prob is - you have a meta tag on the page instructing Google not to index your site:

    <META NAME="GOOGLEBOT" CONTENT="INDEX, NOFOLLOW">

    I would remove it - it might help things. It may take some time to filter through however.


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    conolan
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 586 ✭✭✭conolan


    had that there because I didn't want the flash pages to be indexed. However, in THEORY that instruction should allow the home page to be indexed.


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    D.W
    Closed Accounts Posts: 218 ✭✭D.W


    Hi Conolan,
    its currently displaying no backlinks-Your search - link:http://www.connhennessy.ie/ - did not match any documents. Get some links pointing at the site and this should assist fairly fast especially via blogs as these are spidered quickly. As you are probably aware Google often takes quite some time to even show a newish site in its results but if you get some links it should assist.


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    forbairt
    Registered Users Posts: 3,594 ✭✭✭forbairt


    Did you actually submit it to google ?

    http://www.google.com/addurl/


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    conolan
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 586 ✭✭✭conolan


    Have a link to it and did submit. Is google slower to rank .ie sites than .com?


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    forbairt
    Registered Users Posts: 3,594 ✭✭✭forbairt


    get rid of the nofollow in the meta (why exactly don't you want pages on the site indexed ? )

    add a sitemap and submit it to google.com/webmasters

    dump analytics on it

    Add a few more links from sites to it

    Add to dmoz .. ( follow instructions of fluffylinkulator :P ) and so on ....


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    WizZard
    Registered Users Posts: 6,762 ✭✭✭WizZard


    forbairt wrote: »
    Add to dmoz .. ( follow instructions of fluffylinkulator :P ) and so on ....

    Fluffylinkulator doesn't support Live.com search engine submission :p :pac:

    So submit your site here also: http://search.live.com/docs/submit.aspx


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    forbairt
    Registered Users Posts: 3,594 ✭✭✭forbairt


    WizZard wrote: »
    Fluffylinkulator doesn't support Live.com search engine submission :p :pac:

    So submit your site here also: http://search.live.com/docs/submit.aspx

    Fluffy may be due some TLC shortly :D


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    #10
    caminowebmaster
    Registered Users Posts: 37 ✭caminowebmaster


    Hi Conolan,

    grab my new free seo guide for irish small business here http://www.cubeonlinemarketing.ie/cube-seo-guide-for-irish-business/ pdf and should give you all you need to get started.

    And gret rid of the no follow - that is crazy.


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